About the Instructor:(August 17, 2016)
Retired Colonel/Chief of Police James Von Debrow III served as a Senior Texas law Enforcement Executive and has a career over a span of more than 35 years. He served in the following City and State capacities: Patrolman; State Trooper; Senior Sergeant Detective; Shift Commander, Lieutenant; Acting Captain; Regional Commander; Head Administrator and Colonel/Chief of Police. James is a Federal United States Army Viet-Nam Era Veteran of the 2nd Infantry Division.
James is a Master Peace Officer from the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and currently commissioned by the Texas Department of Public Safety as a Special Ranger. He retired from the Texas Department of Public Safety-State Trooper and duties included: Authorized Use of Force Expert, Authorized Chief Instructor in Forensic Investigative Hypnosis to the Texas Rangers Service, Field Supervisor over 5 Counties, Cadet Drill Sergeant in Physical Fitness and Master Self-Defense Expert (produced over 350 Black Belts in the private sector); Criminal Investigations Instructor and graduated 2,008 TXDPS Recruits, Traffic and Criminal Law Investigations; and Case Manager for two Local Police Municipalities. James has trained National and International students from over 600 Law Enforcement Agencies and over 22,000 Personnel.
James graduated from the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He is academically trained by the FBI in: Interview and Interrogation, Criminal Investigative Analysis, Investigative Psychology, Forensic Science, Management, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Professor Debrow is an Academician, Adjunct University Instructor, attended 10 colleges and Universities, and graduated from 4 with Degrees or Professional Certificates in: Psychology; Management; Criminal Justice; Corrections; Change and Project Management, Forensic Psychology, General Studies and Law Enforcement.
James Marital Arts Trainers and Mentors: Master Kim and Choi from Korea and Japan; Grandmaster Alvin Francis, San Antonio, Texas; Grand Master Larry Lockhart, San Antonio, Texas; Grand Master Richard Dixon, San Antonio; and Grand Master Joe Alvarado, Austin, Texas.
Course Topics: Basic/Intermediate Kinesics Scientific Interviewing Techniques (S.I.T.) Detective’s School Level I & II: 16 Hours $295.00
The Importance of words; Power of word usage; Understanding and Explanation of the Eight Categories of Grammar; Organizational Clue of Writing; Rap-Port Building and 10 characteristics; Demonstrations with Class Participants; 18 Things that People will Talk About; 14-Points to Evaluate Resistance; Utilization of Time; Verbal and Nonverbal Communication; Introduction to Criminal Interviewing and Investigation-getting the facts; A.C.Q.U.I.R.E. Acronym; Six interrogatories; Kinesics; Proxemics; Introduction into the Use of Criminal Hypnosis and Amnesia; S.T.A.R.T./S.M.A.R.T. Acronym; Rap-port Ladder-Chart; Carl Roger’s Hypothesis; Open-Ended and Close-Ended Questions; 2-Components of Reflective Listening; Interview and Interrogation;Stare Decisis-Case Law; The Correct Approach to the Miranda Rule; Interview and Interrogation Hierarchy Five Phases Graphic Chart: Forensic Psychology; Social Process Theory; Creating of an investigative plan; Rules governing Admissibility; Police Misconduct; Outrageous Governmental Conduct; Evolving Standards of Decency; Six System Failures; Written Statement Preparation; Kinesics and Lying;Scientific Study related to Lying; Physical Symptomatic Indicators; Truthful and Deceptive people; What Lying creates; Academic Data on Liars and Truthful people; Review of Courts Language; Constitution and State Law; Interview and interrogation charts; Interview Phase Face-to-Face Flow Chart; and Interrogation Chart Interrogation Face-to-Face Flow Chart.This is a how to conduct Academic and Practitioner’ interviewing school and more!!!
Course Topics: Advance Kinesics Scientific Interviewing Techniques (S.I.T.) Forensic Neuropsychology for Detective’s School: Level 3 & 4; 16-Hours $395.00
Fact Construction Technique; The Attribution Theory Model; Lying; Homeostasis and Normalcy; Human Brain- Talking and Conflict; Postural Changes; Commonality of Tonality, Quality Duration and Attire (formal suit and tie suspect v interviewer); Subconscious v. conscious; Psychology and Physiology-Synergism of the Body and Mind; What the Eye can Communicate; Autonomic Nervous System; Confabulation; Demand characteristics; S.I.N.S. the Central Nervous System and Muscular Activity; Body language/Silent Language; Congruent and Incongruences; Verbal and Nonverbal Communication-5 processes of human communication Information Processing System Rationality Principle; 6 Factors associated with Kinesics that are crucial to the Dyad; The body kinesics research reported in a 10 points system; Forensic Neuropsychology; Nervous System Sensory Input, Interrogation and Motor Output; The five Sensory Systems; The Defense Mechanism Responses-DMR; 10 rules Receptivity; 13 traits for Interviewers success telephone vs. Face-to-Face Interview; Eyewitness testimony; 4 items to Create Power and Authority; Invitational interviews to Police Station issues; Ideomotor Effect; The Law of Dominant Effect; The Law of Reverse Effect; 8 points Research Theory for Successful police interviews; Physiological and Psychological signs of the SNS; 5-Academics Moods of Interview and Interrogation; Amnesia and Hypermnesia-Ideomotor Sensory Activity; Serial Position Effect; 10 Scientific Interview Skills; Transference and Countertransference; Perception and Apperception phenomena; Suggestion and the Law of Prestige; The Law of Concentrated Attention; The Limbic System; Taxonomy of Lies; Principles of the Mind; Emotional muscular movements; The Basic Memory Model; Traumatic Events; Encoding and Context; The Discrimination Principle; Episodic memory; Seven Sins of Memory and 10 points that Effect Memory; The Forgetting Curve; Eyewitness Factors; Remembering; Structured Questioning Format; Confessional Objectives Flow Chart; False Confessions of Offenders with Mental Illness; Research discussion about using certain potentially Poor Techniques; 3 Types of False Confessions; and the False Memory Syndrome.This is a how to conduct Academic and Practitioner’ interviewing school and more!!!